MAN STABS GIRLFRIEND TO DEATH IN CANARSIE , ANYONE KNOW THEM?

A man facing charges of attempted murder in an April shooting stabbed his girlfriend to death on Saturday afternoon in his basement apartment in Brooklyn as police officers were en route to the home, the police said on Sunday.

When officers from the 67th Precinct arrived at the brick house at 649 East 95th Street in East Flatbush, they found the man, Daniel Romain, 33, inside the apartment with plastic bags on his hands and his clothes covered in blood, the police said. He fled out the back door but was arrested after a brief foot chase.

The officers, called at 4:36 p.m. by a man described as Mr. Romain’s stepfather, who also lived there, had been responding to what seemed to be a routine call for a “family dispute,” the police said. A dispute would not necessarily have sent officers rushing to the location.

But upon searching the apartment, the police said, the officers discovered a chilling scene: two knives in the kitchen sink, a pair of scissors on the floor and, in the bathroom, the motionless body of a Florida woman, naked and tied with bedsheets. The smell of bleach pervaded, an apparent sign of a hasty attempt to clean up traces of the crime, the police said.

The woman, Tisa Kelly, 46, had been stabbed numerous times in the neck, back and torso, the police said. She was pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, several blocks away.

Mr. Romain, who twice spent several years in New York State prison, for drug sales and attempted robbery, was arraigned on Sunday in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.

At the time of the stabbing, he was facing charges of attempted murder and weapons possession stemming from a shooting outside an East New York, Brooklyn, house party on April 25. The police said Mr. Romain and two other men had arrived at the party, on the second floor of 787 Vermont Street, and were denied entry.

A fight broke out in the hallway, the police said, and then there were two gunshots. One bullet grazed the head of a 27-year-old man, who was treated at Brookdale. Officers, given a description of the suspect, arrested Mr. Romain later that day.

Indicted in that case, Mr. Romain was free on $25,000 bond and awaiting his next court date in January, according to court records. A lawyer for Mr. Romain did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

The deadly stabbing on Saturday began as an argument between Mr. Romain and Ms. Kelly, who, the police said, had been trying to leave the apartment before Mr. Romain’s wife returned home from work. It was not clear why he wanted Ms. Kelly to stay, the police said, but at some point he began punching her.

She went to a back bedroom, where the stepfather was, and told him to call 911, the police said. When the officers arrived, they were met outside by the stepfather, who spoke to them briefly before they entered, the police said.

It was not clear when the officers arrived at the house, on a residential block near Linden Boulevard, or how much time passed between the 911 call and the officers’ pursuit of Mr. Romain. According to the paperwork, the police said, he was arrested at 5 p.m. The officers called an ambulance at 5:02 p.m., the Fire Department said.

In a neighboring house, Susana Adolphus-James, 53, was cleaning her apartment and setting up holiday decorations on Sunday.

“You pray that it doesn’t happen to your family,” she said. “And it actually happened next door.”

From her bedroom window, Ms. Adolphus-James said, she could see yellow police tape in the backyard. She said Mr. Romain was led to a police car in handcuffs in boxer shorts.